Kneeling Angel
- Object belonging
- One's own
- Category
- Wood sculpture
- City
- Rome
- Location
- Museo Nazionale del Palazzo di Venezia
- Specific location
- Study room, cabinet, shelf 1, section G
- Inventory
- PV 07468
- Material and technique
- Sculpted and carved wood, paint and gilding
- Author
- German School
- Dating
- 16th century
- Dimensions
- 38.5 x 26 x 21.5 cm.
- Origin
- Tower-Wurts Collection (1933)
- Image copyright
- SSPSAE e per il Polo Museale della città di Roma
Short description
This unpublished statuette, which came from the Wurts collection (W 378), depicts a kneeling angel dressed in a long tunic, which was originally gilded (though now only the red clay is visible), that covers the legs, winding its way ‘erratically’ in the lower part; the features of the face are rather strong, framed by bobbed hair, with a fringe, whose locks are parallel and symmetrical. The statuette, which was intended to be hung, as the metal hook on the upper part of the head indicates, dates from 16th century Germany, but has been poorly preserved and has suffered considerable structural damage (both hands are missing).
Grazia Maria Fachechi
Bibliography
Unpublished
